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Re:Why I use Firefox by snarfy on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:48PM (#39545372)
To be fair, Apple is a bit hostile towards open source developers. I can write windows and linux software from both windows and linux, but to write apple software I need a mac and a developer account that costs money. If firefox depends on patches from the community, they will receive less patches for macos features because of this asymmetry.
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Re:Why I use Firefox by dotancohen on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @08:32PM (#39545638)
Linux user with no care for Mac features.

Firefox may be open source, but Mozilla is a company with a paid development team. It is exactly these types of issues - UX, UI - on which the dev team should be working. I'm sure that a lot of features come from the open source community, but the polish and sound implementation is on the dev team.

For what it's worth, Firefox on KDE is fine.

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Re:Why I use Firefox by nightpool on Thursday February 29, 2024 @09:43PM (#39557958)
I have never needed to pay for a developer account to run my own code on my own machine. What? How does this have anything to do with OP's point?
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